On 15–16 June, the EU_NITRA_UKR project was presented at the RIFF Summit "Research Infrastructures for the Future of Ukraine" held in Brno, Czech Republic. 

Under the auspices of the EU Horizon RIFF project "Research Infrastructures for the Future of Ukraine: Roadmap for Sustained Growth and Recovery", aiming the restoration, development and integration of Ukrainian research infrastructures into the European scientific space, a Thematic Summit on Health and Food, Environment, as well as Data Infrastructure, Computing and Digital Research was held at Masaryk University (MUNI) in Brno, Czech Republic.

The summit was attended by those responsible for developing a roadmap for the integration of Ukrainian research infrastructures into the European research space from a number of higher education institutions of Ukraine, as well as representatives of leading higher education and other institutions from the EU.

Within the EU Horizon RIFF summit, representatives of NUBiP of Ukraine gave speeches and poster presentations: Professor Anton KOSHEL, Associate Professors Vyacheslav BOGDANETS, Nadiya PROKOPCHUK, and Vira KUTOVENKO. In total, more than 70 researchers from Ukraine and EU countries took part in this large-scale event. For rational use of time, the event provided for holding three clusters simultaneously.

In the ENV – Environment cluster, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Agrobiology, Associate Professor of Analytical and Bioinorganic Chemistry and Water Quality Department Nadiya PROKOPCHUK gave a poster presentation on the topic "35 years of the EU Nitrates Directive: critical analysis and implementation roadmap for Ukraine". The results of the implementation of the international EU project Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module "EU_NITRA_UKR – Nitrate pollution prevention for health environment: European experience of the Nitrates Directive implementation for a Ukrainian circular economy" were presented, the European experience of preventing nitrate water pollution was highlighted, modern challenges for Ukraine were analyzed, and promising directions for implementing the provisions of the EU Nitrates Directive in the context of European integration and sustainable development were substantiated.

Participation in the thematic summit became an important platform for exchanging experience with representatives of leading European research infrastructures, establishing new partnerships, and discussing opportunities for implementing joint scientific and educational projects in the fields of environmental protection, food security, and data management.

After the completion of the reports and poster presentations, tours of the scientific laboratories of Masaryk University took place, which is one of the leaders in innovative instrumental research methods in environmental and health sciences and their integration into European research infrastructures.

As a result of participation in the summit, new promising contacts were established for international scientific and grant cooperation, a draft grant application was prepared, and participation in the next rounds of the RIFF project by representatives from NUBiP of Ukraine is planned.